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alecrabbit/php-console-colour
=============================

Helps to do colored console output.

0.10.1(4y ago)845.7k↓39.8%23MITPHPPHP >=7.2CI failing

Since Oct 16Pushed 4y ago1 watchersCompare

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🖍️ PHP Console Colour
=====================

[](#️-php-console-colour)

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### Installation

[](#installation)

```
composer require alecrabbit/php-console-colour
```

### Themes::class

[](#themesclass)

##### Usage

[](#usage)

```
$themes = new Themes();
echo $themes->red('This text is red.') . PHP_EOL;
echo $themes->underlinedBold('This text is underlined and bold.') . PHP_EOL;
```

Basically methods of this class just applying corresponding escape sequences to `$text`

```
// "\033[2;3mThis text is dark and italic.\033[0m"
$colorized = $themes->darkItalic('This text is dark and italic.')
```

##### Methods

[](#methods)

> Note: not all methods could be listed.

```
/**
 * @method comment(string $text)
 * @method error(string $text)
 * @method info(string $text)
 *
 * @method yellow(string $text)
 * @method red(string $text)
 * @method green(string $text)
 * @method cyan(string $text)
 * @method magenta(string $text)
 *
 * @method italic(string $text)
 * @method bold(string $text)
 * @method dark(string $text)
 * @method darkItalic(string $text)
 * @method white(string $text)
 * @method whiteBold(string $text)
 * @method underlined(string $text)
 * @method underlinedBold(string $text)
 * @method underlinedItalic(string $text)
 */
```

> Note: new methods will be added. Pull requests are welcomed.

##### Define your own themes

[](#define-your-own-themes)

- `Themes::class` [How to extend?](docs/howToExtendThemeClass.md)

### ConsoleColor::class

[](#consolecolorclass)

// TODO

### XTerm 256 Colors Table

[](#xterm-256-colors-table)

- [xterm-colors.php](examples/xterm-colors.php)

[![example](docs/images/xterm-colors.png)](docs/images/xterm-colors.png)

### Examples

[](#examples)

- [using\_themes\_class.php](https://github.com/alecrabbit/php-console-colour/blob/master/examples/using_themes_class.php)

[![example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alecrabbit/php-console-colour/master/docs/images/example_using_themes_class_output.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alecrabbit/php-console-colour/master/docs/images/example_using_themes_class_output.png)

- [colour.php](https://github.com/alecrabbit/php-console-colour/blob/master/examples/colour.php)

[![example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alecrabbit/php-console-colour/master/docs/images/example_colour_output.png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alecrabbit/php-console-colour/master/docs/images/example_colour_output.png)

> Note: actual colors depend on your terminal color scheme

### Links

[](#links)

- [xterm-256-color Chart](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Xterm_256color_chart.svg)
- [256 COLORS - CHEAT SHEET](https://jonasjacek.github.io/colors/)
- [XVilka/TrueColour.md](https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728)
- inspired by [JakubOnderka/PHP-Console-Color](https://github.com/JakubOnderka/PHP-Console-Color)

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity37

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 99.1% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~28 days

Recently: every ~169 days

Total

37

Last Release

1800d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)0.0.1PHP >=7.2

0.1.9-BETA.1PHP ^7.2

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11045453?v=4)[Alec](/maintainers/alecrabbit)[@alecrabbit](https://github.com/alecrabbit)

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Top Contributors

[![alecrabbit](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11045453?v=4)](https://github.com/alecrabbit "alecrabbit (232 commits)")[![dependabot-preview[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/2141?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot-preview[bot] "dependabot-preview[bot] (1 commits)")[![kirtangajjar](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8456197?v=4)](https://github.com/kirtangajjar "kirtangajjar (1 commits)")

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Tags

ansiansi-coloransi-colorsclicolorcolourconsoleconsole-colorphpphp-console-colorphp-console-colourphp7terminalterminal-colorterminal-colorsconsoleterminalcoloransioutputheightcolourwidth

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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